Current Ph.D. students
Matthew Putnins
Past BS students
Melanie Parikh
BME BS 2016; Case Western Medical SchoolAlyssa Kosmides
BME BS 2012; PhD JHU 2016Jocelyn Alexander, EOSHI
BME BS 2008David Simcha, Google
BME BS 2007, PhD JHU 2012Kelly Horn, Patent Agent
BME BS 2006, MS Rice 2008, JD Georgetown 2017Amit Misra, AtlantiCare
BME BS 2006, MD 2011Past Ph.D. students
Alison Acevedo, GSK
Ph.D. 2019Meg Scherholz, BMS
Ph.D. 2019Rohit Rao, Pfizer
Ph.D. 2018Seul-A Bae, Merck
Ph.D. 2018Kamau Pierre, Sanofi
Ph.D. 2017Kubra Kamisoglu, Biogen
Ph.D. 2015Pantelis Mavroudis. Sanofi
Ph.D. 2014Shuliang Zhang, Norton Eng.
Ph.D. 2014Jeremy Scheff, Covance
BS 2008, Ph.D. 2013Qian Yang, U of Alberta
Ph.D. 2012Mehmet Orman, U of Houston
Ph.D. 2011Tung Nguyen, Covance
Ph.D. 2011Panagiota Foteinou, Sanofi
Ph.D. 2010Kaiyuan He, ExxonMobil
Ph.D. 2010Meric Ovacik, Genentech
Ph.D. 2010Eric Yang, Novartis
Ph.D. 2008Current MS students
Stanley Ko
BME BS 2014Past MS students
Jierui Liang
MS 2015Jon Pai
MS 2015Kisten Sleigh
MS 2014Vassilis Niotis, Accenture
MS 2011Phong Huynh, Rutgers
MS 2008James Wu, RealNetworks
MS 2007Current BS students
CBE, BS 2017Nilay Vora
BME, BS 2018Rohan Sah
Biology BS 2016Donal Chawla
CBE, BS 2017Lan Le
CBE, BS 2017
About me
I am a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering and hold an Adjuct faculty position in the Department of Surgery at the Rutgers-RWJ Medical School. My research focuses on systems biology and pharmacology of inflammation with special emphasis on the interactions between the circadian and immune systems. I am Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. I hold a BS degree from NTUA, Athens, Greece; MS/PhD from Purdue University, all in Chemical Engineering. I was a Research Associate at Princeton University and prior to joining Rutgers I was with ExxonMobil's Corporate Strategic Research Laboratories in NJ. You can find detailed information about my education, experience, and activities in my CV (click here). You can get more information about what I work on currently in the "Research" page of my web site.
Research Interests
Computational Systems Biology; Computational Systems Pharmacology; Inflammation and inflammatory diseases; Circadian - immune - metabolism interactions
Professional experience
2004 - present: Rutgers University
1996 - 2004: Corporate Research Laboratories, ExxonMobil R&E, Annandale, NJ, USA. Scientific Associate - Technical Program Leader
Education
1993 - 1996: Princeton University. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical Engineering
1990 - 1993: Purdue University. PhD, Chemical Engineering
1988 - 1990: Purdue University. MS, Chemical Engineering
1983 - 1988: National Technical University of Athens, Greece. BS, Chemical Engineering.
I am always looking for students, both undergraduate and graduate, excited and curious to join my group.
If interested in a PhD, I strongly recommend that you read my thoughs here.
Before considering joining my group please read carefully (here) my mentoring philosophy and the expectations for any future group member. Graduate school is first and foremost fun ! Here is Dr. Craig Mello (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2006) explaining why. Here is also some good advise to keep in mind when approaching likely future mentors from Dr. Paul Nurse (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2006).
Please take a look at the two presentations bellow (left) where I have tried to summarize personal comments for anyone who wants to get involved with research. On the right is a lecture I give to our Intro to BME class (sophomore BME students) on "Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics: Opportunities in Systems Biology". I hope you will enjoy them!
